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To support or sustain; to hold up. |
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To support and remove or carry; to convey. |
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To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. |
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To possess and use, as power; to exercise. |
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To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a
mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. |
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To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or
distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. |
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To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to
entertain; to harbor |
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To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. |
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To gain or win. |
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To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense,
responsibility, etc. |
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To render or give; to bring forward. |
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To carry on, or maintain; to have. |
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To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain
without violence, injury, or change. |
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To manage, wield, or direct. |
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To behave; to conduct. |
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To afford; to be to; to supply with. |
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To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples;
to bear children; to bear interest. |
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To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to
barrenness. |
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To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
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To endure with patience; to be patient. |
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To press; -- with on or upon, or against. |
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To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring
matters to bear. |
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To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this
bear on the question? |
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To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
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To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect
to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. |
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A bier. |
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Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied
genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit
and insects. |
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An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or
habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water
bear; sea bear. |
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One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called
respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa
Minor. |
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Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
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A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery
in expectation of a fall in the market. |
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A portable punching machine. |
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A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the
deck. |
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To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to
bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
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Alt. of Bere |
